This does not look good:
Uh oh — more bad news for the Employee Free Choice Act. Dem Senator Mark Warner, who had appeared set to cast a key vote for the measure, is now noncommittal and won’t say yet which way he’s voting.
As I noted here recently, Warner has been sending constituents a letter that appears to say he’s decided to vote to bring the bill to the floor. This is a reference to the earlier, procedural “cloture” vote that requires 60 Senators to get past the GOP filibuster — the major hurdle for EFCA backers.
In that letter, Warner said that “EFCA should be debated and voted upon by the Senate” — apparently voicing support for it going to the floor.
But Warner has been under relentless pressure from the anti-EFCA forces, who want the filibuster to block the bill at all costs...
C'mon, Senator Warner, stick to your guns on this one and vote for employee free choice! It's the right thing to do, and you can certainly afford it politically, being the most popular politician in Virginia and all. :) Thanks.
